The Washington critic., 1887-11-04
WASHINGTON, NOV. 4, 1887.
MIR. CARNEGIE SUPPRESSED.

and bred under the British Monarchy,
and still entertaining an unaffected
fondness for his native land, 1t is a
unique and remarkable book.
Necessarily It abouuis In striking
contrasts between the rapid progress of
the Great Republic, with its free and
popular government, and the compare.
lively slow advance Of the nations of
the Old World, with their monarchicil
and imperial establishments. Other.
wise the author would have been un.
able to emphasize the points he desired
TO make In favor of the American sys.
TEN.
1t is not surprising that the dclinea-
lion of these contrasts, So derogatory to
the Kingdoms and Empires of Europe
and so laudatory of the United States,
should prove offensive 10 those who
still cling to royalty as The emblem of
the highest political wisdom. Poten.
tates and those who worshi p at the feet
Of potentatcs are alike sensitive to
ccnsorious criticism, as they are alike
fearful of the inroads of civil liberty.
Hence the action of the authorities of
Wolverhampton, England, who, having
found matter of reasonable character
embodied in the pages of Triumphant
Democracy" forthwith rose In their
municipal might and banished the book
from the town library.
We care at something of q loss to un.
derstand why our British cousins
should have been so long in discover
ing the mares nest, for Mr.. Carnegle's
Look has doubtless had a fair circuli.
tion In England, or why 1t should have
been reserved for Wolverhampton TO
make the discovery. Possibly the only
Tory in the whole United Kingdom
who ever had the patience to read 1t
through was Wolverhampton's town
librarian, and 1t was doubtless the fol.
lowing extract that excited his ire and
led to the metaphorical burning Of Mr..
Carnegie at the stake of incensed 10y.
atty.
In the chapter entitled "The National
Balance Sheet" toward the close Of the
book, Mr.. Carnegie states that the cost
OF maintaining the Queen and her
family annually amounts to $4,000, 900,
whereas the entire expense of support.
ing the President, the Vice President,
the Senate and the House of Repre-.
sentalives of the United States Is but
slightly in excess of S2,0OO0O0. He
then says:
| have known well informed Brtons who be
lleved that the cost Of government in America
was greater than their own. The figures given
prove that the amount paid by the Republlc
Tor the four hundred officers and legislators
who form her governing body does not amount
to half US much as the Monarchy squanders
uron one family, which has neither public
duties nor official responsibility, and which
sets an example OF wasteful and snowy living
TO the injury OF the nation. One scarcely
SHOWS at which to wonder most, the fatuous
folly of the people In permitting this great
snm to go to one family, which Is really one
Of the scandals OF our age or that any we'll
educated family, possessed of even ordinary
sensibillty, can be found to take from peo
lie, many OF whom are sorely pressed for tn,
n, cessar'es OF life this enormous amount o
their earnings and waste 1t upon their owr
mean and coarse extravaganza.
It will puzzle my American readers to i'm
agine how such enormous sums can be spen
upon one family. Perhaps one item will she
light upon It. The sum spent by this mode
queen for useless pleasure boats alone
greater than the American pays his Presiden
and Vice. President, the Cabinet officers an
all the Judges OF the Supreme Court. On
IN, ryels, when such abuses are revealed, tina
any member. of the royal family Is safe 4
open day.
But the story does not stop here. The fam
lily finds in every marriage Of their children
fresh plea for demanding more money, and a
every death they saddle the nation with tn
funeral expenses. The royal mother of he
people cannot be induced to support her owl
children during life, or even to bury then
decently at death, as long as the public cal
be further bled. All this Is no reflection upol
The royal family of England, for all othe
royal families do the same. They are as goot
aroyal family as anywhere to be found. Ger
tainly the Queen Is personally one of the bes
women who ever occupied a throne. IL is th
fault Of the system that such callousness Il
bred In those who would otherwise be goot
people. The royal family is only one of man!
evils with which monarohical Institutions In
fest State.
THE ACTION of District Assembly 60
Knights of Labor, in adopting resolu
tions of censure against Mr.. jackson
the Democratic candidate for Governo
of Maryland, has provoked a spirited
and indignant protest from the Demo
cratic workingmen of the District, VIII
urge that Mr.. Jackson is tried aut
true friend of labor, and tina. hi
partisan deuunciation by the meeting
on Wednesday night was antagonist
to the constitution Of their organic
tion. 1t is charged that the resolution
were introduced and carried throug
by few designing persons In the Ii
terest of the Republican party, and thu
1t places Democratic members Of til
order in an attitude which they do nc
occupy, and which they cannot tolerate
The controversy which has been II
augurated can only he regarded in tn
light of misfortune to the Knights c
Labor, yet the principles governing th
organization and so vigorously mair
tained by Mr.. Powderly furnish tn
protesting parties an ample basis fC
their revolt.
The Chicago Nal suggests as one {
the chief objections to st, Louis as
place for holding National Convention
that 1t stands on bed of limeston,
which "gets into white heat In sun
mer time and literally blisters an
bakes the human flesh" If we reco
]ect Alright the smells of Chicago abor
the same time are almost as bad as th
heat In ST J,ouia whilp tha tvnb nj